Birth control in the decolonizing Caribbean : reproductive politics and practice on four islands, 1930-1970
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Birth control in the decolonizing Caribbean : reproductive politics and practice on four islands, 1930-1970
Cambridge University Press, 2016
- : hbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 226-243) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Over the course of the twentieth century, campaigns to increase access to modern birth control methods spread across the globe and fundamentally altered the way people thought about and mobilized around reproduction. This book explores how a variety of actors translated this movement into practice on four islands (Jamaica, Trinidad, Barbados, and Bermuda) from the 1930s-70s. The process of decolonization during this period led to heightened clashes over imperial and national policy and brought local class, race, and gender tensions to the surface, making debates over reproductive practices particularly evocative and illustrative of broader debates in the history of decolonization and international family planning. Birth Control in the Decolonizing Caribbean is at once a political history, a history of activism, and a social history, exploring the challenges faced by working class women as they tried to negotiate control over their reproductive lives.
Table of Contents
- List of tables and figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of acronyms
- Introduction
- 1. The answer, an aid, a right: birth control debates and social movements in the interwar years
- 2. From politics to practice: the Colonial office, foreign activists, local advocates, and the structure of family planning clinics
- 3. Beyond culture or choice: working class families and birth control clinics
- 4. A matter of cost: reproductive politics, state family planning programs, and foreign aid in the transition to independent rule
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
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